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n. A device consisting of a metal frame for the head and a bit to restrain the tongue, formerly used to punish scolds. Usually used in the plural.

n. A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue

v. To put someone in the branks

v. To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit.

v. To prance; to caper.

n. Buckwheat.

n. A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.

n. A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

verb-intransitive. To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.

verb-intransitive. To prance; to caper.

To make a show or fine appearance; parnk.

To hold up the head affectedly.

n. Buckwheat.

n. Confusion.

n. A kind of dance.

n. See branks.

"The work's title, Brank & Heckle, refers to a brank, a 16th-century iron muzzle used to silence women offenders, and hecklers, first thought to refer to 19th-century Dundee mill workers who, while heckling combing out flax would, like the artist, give surreptitious voice to dissent."

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buckwheat    prance    caper   

Blanc    Franck    Frank    Hank    Montblanc    Planck    Ranke    Yank    antitank    banc